The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.